At 02:15 PM 11/15/01, you wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:29:04PM +0800, M. Yu wrote:
>He received it under the terms of the GNU GPL. It's legal as long as he
>offers to give you the source for a reasonable fee, and "distributes" it
>under the terms of the GPL.
i don't think so. StarOffice is binary only. there is no source to
redistribute. of course a lot of the source in OpenOffice is in
StarOffice, but there are parts of StarOffice (thesaurus, dictionary,
ADABAS, maybe other things too like hyphenator code, etc) that is
not open source. that's why StarOffice, although almost identical
to OpenOffice, isn't open source.
tiger
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